“LLMs are just fancy statistical prediction machines”
“It’s not really thinking.”
“It’s just matching training data.”
Sound familiar? These arguments are everywhere right now, especially after Apple researchers claimed AI can’t reason mathematically. What’s fascinating is how quickly the press transformed this specific claim about mathematical reasoning into sweeping headlines about AI’s inability to reason at all.
“It’s not really thinking.”
“It’s just matching training data.”
Sound familiar? These arguments are everywhere right now, especially after Apple researchers claimed AI can’t reason mathematically. What’s fascinating is how quickly the press transformed this specific claim about mathematical reasoning into sweeping headlines about AI’s inability to reason at all.